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    Dealing with Sleep Troubles and Traumatic Memories and Imagined Threats

    That was helpful thanks so much. That’s good to know the moving to different locations helped in someways also. And that’s a good point be positive about how much sleep I get. That helps what was going on make more sense also.
  2. J

    Dealing with Sleep Troubles and Traumatic Memories and Imagined Threats

    Yes, I am in therapy. My therapist is out for the next few weeks for spring break.
  3. J

    Dealing with Sleep Troubles and Traumatic Memories and Imagined Threats

    I have been struggling recently with sleep. I often fall asleep eventually but sometimes it is as late as 4:30 AM in the morning. I have bad dreams sometimes. In the past, they have been memories of things that happened that resulted in my having trauma. I bad dream this one is most likely...
  4. J

    My story

    I belive you. This is brave to open up about. I support you in having those rapists harshest possible sentencing. I take seriously your story and know the impacts that having been raped can cause in peoples lives.
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    Sexual Assault Help

    I am also a survivor of in many aways of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation. Being forced to preform sexual acts by force and manipulation for whoever does the forcing and manipulating. Since A forced me to have sex against my will with people more then once. Like how M experienced that and...
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    Hospital when I'm supposed to be on vacation. So sad & upset .

    You could go just you next spring on a trip it doesn't help alot but about having to miss it currently. Sounds like the recovery is going okay. ***No ughhh why can't I edit my comments anymore it seems like not sounds. That the recovery is going well.
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    Hospital when I'm supposed to be on vacation. So sad & upset .

    Like you could plan a trip for the next spring. You were going with the niece taking day trips to an appointment you made to do before the trip. **Whoops sorry not the niece. I miss typed that. You were going with your niece to an appointments you made that you had been putting off but needed...
  8. J

    Hospital when I'm supposed to be on vacation. So sad & upset .

    Were you planning on going on vacation just you? Nausea is a common side effect of recovering from that surgery. And depending on where you were planning on going and the health care of there it might have been better to get that sick before going on vacation. That just would have been scary if...
  9. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    I get what you saying there that was kind of a miscommunication. I can't just let go of what happened and I don't plan on doing so in most of the the situations that resulted in where I am at currently. But I can totally cut ties with everyone that has been mean to me. Seattle Passific...
  10. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Yes I do need to protect myself!
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    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Thats very true @Friday there was some miscommunication. Yes I can't control other people I'm only allow to have my own boundaries and ways I act when people do not respect my boundaries. I can understand how someone that was mean already wouldn't care if something was triggering or upsetting to...
  12. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Yeah that was really teriffying. Oh thanks no I haven't started a dairy I will make sure to do that.
  13. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    But to top that shit off the police ends up already knew that crime happened in the park and didn't arrest Travis because he was in the park and they weren't arresting people in the park apparently. Though I was told that by someone pretty untrustworthy. Like I thought about telling the police...
  14. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    I don't need to change in this situation I didn't do anything wrong. I'm in therapy and learning skills to manage the aftermath of the horrible impact what that completely f*cked abusive ex partner did Alex and that abolish the police group. Bullies have the patterns that needs to be worked...
  15. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Yes and I did block everyone when that stuff happened and I could block anyone that is not being respectful if the level of exposure I am choosing to have definitely. I just don't view it like that I am sorry. That would mabye be true in another situation but it's not true for me. I don't want...
  16. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Yea I do deep breathing and other coping. I look at beautiful pictures scroll through on my phone. And I do five senses coping. In the worst case last resort I called a crisis line if my anxiety gets too crisis levels 9. I feel safe around Mercer. That's a good to consider what I need in that...
  17. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    I need to go on a walk outside to make my anxiety less high but I am tk anxious that I am going to see someone from that f*ckin Abolish the police group that will not stop coming to my neighborhood and that's making me more anxious.
  18. J

    Word finding difficulties

    I can kinda relate to that those troubles. There's time when I can't remember a word or what some things is called, some people are more visual. How come you are feeling alot of stress? It's just the PTSD or something else? And I would say sometimes PTSD is hard to put in to words all of it...
  19. J

    My anxiety has been at a very high level recently

    Its because I keep on getting triggered it's a hard to in communicates and some other stuff going on. I have seen the news about the sit in and I don't feel vindicated yet. Seattle Passific university students disagreeing with professors. And more stuff at my new school is making me feel really...
  20. J

    Hypervigilance/paranoia?

    Thanks for talking about this safe spaces are really important for survivors of sexual assult and other relational mistreatment. Feeling that one has safe paces to go in college is also so needed. I am not sure if am am feeling paranoia currently but I don't think that I am I am. My anxiety is...
  21. J

    Undiagnosed Hi, I hope to feel less alone with sexual trauma

    Your stories not insignificant at all. It's really important to open up about that type of stuff. It's up to you if you talk about it or not there no pressure to and doing so can definitely be really helpful. I got sexually assulted and witnessed the same person sexual assult some of my closest...
  22. J

    That being around caused trauma for me has a really negative impact on my relationships still

    Oh okay thank that was what I was looking for support on. It's not like I have said I don't want people to go to school idk. It just want it so people can't make me feel that distressed at school to the point that I can't cope. I also if they care not able to address that need some like much...
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    That being around caused trauma for me has a really negative impact on my relationships still

    I need that Abolish the police group to listen to the boundaries I set when I first witnessed the crime. Please leave me alone, not be around me anymore, do not try to contact me, don't show up at places that I go, I have no interest in learning more about a theory that hurt me that much...
  24. J

    That being around caused trauma for me has a really negative impact on my relationships still

    It makes me like very in guard alot of the time with pretty much everyone. I'm like often supposing the worst thing will happen, I don't want to experience what happened with that group of people so I'm like will try to act to protect my self from something that happened in that group happening...
  25. J

    That being around caused trauma for me has a really negative impact on my relationships still

    The who would be pretty much all my relationships. The how is something I am having a little bit of a harder time putting into words. I will read one of the research articles on there to see if I can help give me the words to describe it more.
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